Michigan

[Olive Hill]

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It's not planting time yet here, for most things anyway, but if it was it'd be plenty dry for it. Drove through the back field this morning and about unseated myself from the quad trying to get over the hard-as-rock ruts and bumps left in the "wet spot" by the grain cart last fall. We definitely needed the rain in these parts today. It's been high fire risk and my ground looks more like late summer than early spring. My clay is dry and cracked, my driveway is hard packed, my dirt paddocks are dusty... not good at all for early April. Maybe Richmond ought to share the rain with the rest of the state if ya'll have got such a surplus.

 

[Olive Hill]

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I could go for rain after dark. I love sleeping during Thunderstorms!

 

[michickenwrangler]

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I could go for rain after dark. I love sleeping during Thunderstorms!

I do too for some odd reason. Great minds think alike

Got my cochins today (and a silkie too!)

3 LF partridge cochin chicks
2 LF blue cochin chicks
1 LF black cochin chick
1 partridge silkie

I'll post pics soon!

It was a slightly scary experience. I called Vickie-with-an-i-e when I left Saline with my daughter and agreed on the meeting place. On the way there, the sky turned grey and a wicked wind swept up. On the way, I passed a field fire, luckily firemen were heading that way. I got to the park-n-ride before she did, there was NOTHING there at the spot, not a gas station, not a pornography store, NOTHING!! With the 40mph winds, gray sky and brown-yellow flattened grass, plus a fire not too far away, it was kinda like the twister scene in the Wizard of Oz. Then she showed up w/ chicks, I transferred them, paid her and she gave me the silkie for free!

Chicks in the incubator are due to hatch tomorrow. The last one died, so I hope these two make it

 

[briana1975]

We had a bowling tournement today, The Emergency Invitational. All the countys fire depts, police and EMT's are invited. Anyways, one of the guys from my husbands dept wants to get chicks. So I mentioned we just hatched some so now him and his family are gonna come over and pick out some chicks after Easter. Which means less chicks for me. So since we were in Monroe and I knew TSC had chicks we stopped in and got 6 bantams. I was good yesterday, but now I was gonna need some. That makes a big differance.

Anybody bringing Speckled Sussex chicks to chickenstock? I really need 4 or 5!!!

 

[iluvcks]

Hubby and I went to TSC today for a 5 gallon galvanized waterer. And the sounds of peeps drew me to that side of the store. They had a ton of baby ducks too. There were about 5 teenage girls that had no clue, buying two of them. They didn't even have anything to put them in when they got home. I felt so bad for those ducks and so mad at TSC employees on not educating these girls. I told them the best I could with my just having ducks too. I hope I helped. At least I know they will have the right food and a red light. Proper bedding, and how not to tip the water. I sure hope the ducks and those girls do well.

 

[michickenwrangler]

Here's the new chicks!

Large fowl cochin chicks

Here's a partridge cochin with my "chipmunk" silkie. Daughter already named her Chipmunk

Happy Easter!

 

[ChikeeMomma]

Cute chicks!

I'm whipped! I've planted onions and dug up and then replanted garlic. Made two loaves of bread, 24 dinner rolls, cinnamon rolls and a breakfast casserole today (all for tomorrow) plus all the normal day to day things. Now all that I have to do tomorrow is make cheesy potatoes. My brother and his girlfriend are coming for breakfast and to church with us tomorrow. Then off to my uncle's for a yummy Easter feast.

Have a Happy and Blessed Easter tomorrow!

 

[Mom 2em All]

Happy Easter Everyone-

This is the first Easter I have ever been alone. My husband had a bad episode of what started as a small bump on his wrist- and has ended up being another MRSA infection. I took him to the hospital on Thursday, they cleaned, lanced and packed it and on Friday when i removed the bandage- it was bad bad bad bad and I knew I had to get his butt right back to the hospital and they admitted him. He is on mega-antibiotics now by IV and he is doing well. My girls are staying at my step-daughters because of all the running back and forth I have had to do from here to the hospital.

Friday morning I came home from work early feeling like someone had beaten me up. Fever, chills, aches, nausea...stopped at the pet store to get parrot food. ANd they had the cutest ducklings and chicks there- and a whole crowd of clueless kids and adults buying them. I educated a couple who were only buying ONE chick...told them to get it a friend, etc etc...and the kids that were picking out ducklings made me shudder. I wish the pet store would not sell them. We are all suburban, and they are illegal here and most of the cities around me. I dont mind everyone having illegal poultry- obviously not at all, but I just know that when people buy them on impulse like that at a pet store, most are not set up to provide for them...except for the few like me. One lady I talked to DID have chickens already...but the others only see the cute and fuzzy and will be dumping the ones that survive once the novelty wears off. Especially because the pet store isnt handing out care sheets and they have no idea what breeds they are, etc.
Myself, I can understand how they get sucked in. I was able to resist the chicks....easy enough. I have just moved all my babies outside and I am loving that. yay yay yay...but I couldnt resist the ducklings. They had no heat lamp, and no water. I watched the two smallest ducklings choking down the food, the waterer was dry...and I turned to mush. I impulse purchased. I did- I asked what kind they were. I trick-questioned, I said, "Are they Pekin?" and they said, "Yep"...sure they are. I saw a gosling in there, and tried to pull it off. I said, "OH you have a gosling." They told me it was the last one and it was sold already.. so I brought home one little chocolatey yellow and one yellow with chocolate splotches on its face. And I gave myself the speech. "This is why they sell them every year...because people like YOU buy them"...but I wasnt listening.I drove home with two little ducklings sleeping in my lap and then spent the afternoon snuggling them and napping off and on. Now when i put them up, they cry. peep ppeeeeep peeep peeep. So cute.
My muscovy eggs are due to hatch in TWELVE DAYS...whooo hooo! Sevenchickens we are almost in the home stretch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh no, you all...my brother in law was at the hospital visiting my husband yesterday and told me he needs hens.
heh heh heh..."no problem, I am hatching for you", I tell him. He said that last year all I seemed to hatch was roosters and now he has to butcher almost his entire flock...and I told him that that must mean this year I have earned the right to hatch out mainly pullets for him. However, three of my four Jersey Giants are cockerels and looks like out of the seven other chicks I hatched, at least three are male and the others I cant tell yet...I ordered six long-crowers eggs as an April Fools joke. I will hatch them out and send them to him once they are feathered out- and just watch..the ones that I want to end up with a rooster in will be all female. I have six JG eggs under my broody Turken. Hopefully I can get a couple pullets out of all these JG I am hatching. I have a dozen more JG eggs coming the end of April. That hatch can come with me to chicken stock if anyone wants some.
I want a couple silkies. I want bearded splash with beautiful puffy heads and butts. I do not want to hatch them because I have no choice but to send the extras and the roosters over to my brother in laws...and feather-footed chickens do not fare well over there. Too much mud. If someone has a pair of pullets they would like to part with at ChickenStock, let me know.

Thats my weekly novel- I really have enjoyed seeing the baby chick pictures everyone is posting and hopefully soon SevenChickens and I will be posting pictures of muscovy ducklings..
Everyone have a wonderful holiday.

 

[Opa]

M2EM, I hope you husband's condition improves quickly. I'm sure that everyone will be praying for his fast recovery

 

[Mom 2em All]

Thanks Opa-
Im getting ready to head up there to see him..but first, I took some baby pictures this morning:

five weeks:

five and four weeks:

Four weeks...look at the obvious little roo:

Broody Turken with a pigeon feather on her head that I am NOT reaching for: